MSC Software President & CEO Dominic Gallello visits e-works Headquarter
On March 10th 2016, Mr. Dominic Gallello, MSC. Software President & CEO and Mr. Wilson Zhao, General Manager of Great China visited e-works headquarter located in Wuhan, a city in central China.
Together Mr. Gallelloand Dr. Pei Huang, e-works CEO discussed current development trends of simulation technology and market. Dominic also introduced MSC. Software's development strategy.
In the interview, Mr. Gallello introduced the current challenges and opportunities within simulation industry as well as what MSC has been done in these years. According to Gallello, the future of CAE technology will make breakthroughs in autonomous vehicle, 3D printing, and CAE democratization.
The key technical challenge for autonomous vehicle is not only simulating vehicle behavior but also what’s outside the car. MSC software creates high fidelity models to run at real time and simulates environment and activities outside the car for automobile to make decisions based upon the intersection and traffic. Autonomous vehicle can also help avoiding traffic accidents and even safe lives.
For addictive manufacturing, it’s very hard to predict accurately the formability of the part, which is also the reason of high scrape rate of printed parts in aerospace industry. MSC acquired one manufacturing process simulation company last year in Germany which does forming, welding (laser welding and spot welding). They are building as a solution to predict the formability of a part, not only physics but manufacturing sequence which is very important for reducing fix rate.
“We want the engineers just working in the geometry, shaping the part however they want it and CAE just follows”, Gallello emphasized. The complexity of today’s CAE software requires expert level users, but MSC is hoping and enabling democratizing CAE. MSC has foundation built-in software architecture that everything is connected together. If one part has changed or revised, all other parts associated with it will automatically update. Thus, the CAE application is simplified but value increased.
Gallello believed that the usefulness of simulation answer is if one can get it right now. Any delay from right now it gets less useful. MSC has a parts system called Computational Parts that engineers just need to calculate the only part that has changed. It largely reduced the iterative work and shortened the simulation period.
In 2014, MSC Software released a new Computational Parts-based CAE platform—MSC Apex. MSC Apex has released five versions with the latest one Eagle. In the summer of 2016, MSC Apex will add electromagnetic and CFD technologies.
As for Chinese manufacturers applying simulation software, Mr. Gallello suggested that it’s very important to have strategy. Manufacturers should focus the limit resources on the most important thing that needs to solve first and gradually they will build the whole workflow part.
Dominic Gallello, MSC. Software President & CEO (right) and Dr. Pei Huang (left)
In the interview, Mr. Gallello introduced the current challenges and opportunities within simulation industry as well as what MSC has been done in these years. According to Gallello, the future of CAE technology will make breakthroughs in autonomous vehicle, 3D printing, and CAE democratization.
The key technical challenge for autonomous vehicle is not only simulating vehicle behavior but also what’s outside the car. MSC software creates high fidelity models to run at real time and simulates environment and activities outside the car for automobile to make decisions based upon the intersection and traffic. Autonomous vehicle can also help avoiding traffic accidents and even safe lives.
Mr. Dominic Gallello in the interview
For addictive manufacturing, it’s very hard to predict accurately the formability of the part, which is also the reason of high scrape rate of printed parts in aerospace industry. MSC acquired one manufacturing process simulation company last year in Germany which does forming, welding (laser welding and spot welding). They are building as a solution to predict the formability of a part, not only physics but manufacturing sequence which is very important for reducing fix rate.
“We want the engineers just working in the geometry, shaping the part however they want it and CAE just follows”, Gallello emphasized. The complexity of today’s CAE software requires expert level users, but MSC is hoping and enabling democratizing CAE. MSC has foundation built-in software architecture that everything is connected together. If one part has changed or revised, all other parts associated with it will automatically update. Thus, the CAE application is simplified but value increased.
Gallello believed that the usefulness of simulation answer is if one can get it right now. Any delay from right now it gets less useful. MSC has a parts system called Computational Parts that engineers just need to calculate the only part that has changed. It largely reduced the iterative work and shortened the simulation period.
In 2014, MSC Software released a new Computational Parts-based CAE platform—MSC Apex. MSC Apex has released five versions with the latest one Eagle. In the summer of 2016, MSC Apex will add electromagnetic and CFD technologies.
MSC Apex application interface
As for Chinese manufacturers applying simulation software, Mr. Gallello suggested that it’s very important to have strategy. Manufacturers should focus the limit resources on the most important thing that needs to solve first and gradually they will build the whole workflow part.
